חֲזוֹ
Hazo
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Hazo’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2375 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
About this entry
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The Hebrew name חזו centers on the idea of “Hazo.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Genesis dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Genesis 22:22. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2375 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Hazo 1×
- American Standard Version: Hazo 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hazo 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hazo 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2375 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2375 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2375 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2375 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Hazo = "vision"
- son of Nahor by his wife Milcah
Word origin
n.pr.m. son of Nahor Gn 22:22, 𝔊 Αζαυ (cf. Assyrian n.pr.loc. Hazû, mentioned with Bazû (v. iii. בּוּז) by Esar. DlPa 307; ZK 1885, 93 f. COT on Gn 22:21; also Di).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חזה (châzâh) (H2372) — to see.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲזוּ
- , constr. of חֶזְוָא.
חֵזוּ
- = next w. Targ. O. Gen. XXIV, 16 (ed. Berl. למיחזי).—Ib. Num. XII, 8; a. e.—Pl., v. חָזוּתָא e.g. Numbers 12:8
חֲזִי
- , to see, recognize, to decide. Targ. O. Gen. XXIX, 10; a. fr.—Ber. 45ᵃ; Erub. 14ᵇ, a. e. פוק חֲזִי וכ׳, v. דְּבַר. Ib. 13ᵇ דחֲזִיתֵיה לר"מ וכ׳ (not דחזיתא) because I have seen R. M. &c. Ḥull. 59ᵇ בעינא דאֶיחְזֵי וכ׳ I want to see your God Erub. 63ᵃ ח׳ לנפשיה may examine the knife for his own use; a. fr.—Part. pass. חָזֵי, חֲזֵי, f. חַזְיָא (cmp. רָאוּי) pointed out, fit for, prepared; (it is) proper. Targ. Job XV, 11. Targ. O. Lev. V, 10; a. e.—Keth. 21ᵃ כְּדַחֲ׳, כִּדְחָ׳ as it is proper. B. Bath. 19ᵇ ח׳ לבהמתו fit for his cattle as feed; a. fr.—Sabb. 90ᵃ, a. fr. למאי חזיא what is it good for (what use can be made of it)?—Pl. חָזוּ, חֲזוּ. Ib. top ח׳ למתק וכ׳ they may be used for seasoning &c. Bets. 26ᵇ; a. fr.—חזי לי it was pointed out to me, I saw. Gitt. 57ᵃ. Taan. 25ᵇ; a. fr.
- to show, let see, reveal; to lay before a teacher for examination or decision. Targ. O. Gen. XLI, 28; a. fr.—Ḥull. 59ᵇ בעינא דמַחֲזִית וכ׳ I want thee to show it to me. Bets. l. c. אַחֲזַיֵיה לחכם וכ׳ as soon as he showed it to an expert (and the latter decided favorably) &c.; a. fr.
- same. Targ. II Esth. II, 8.—B. Mets. 67ᵃ ואודיק חַזִּיתָן איילונית and when he looked at me (and noticed that I was going to object by referring to אוֹנָאָה), he pointed out to us the case of אַיְילוֹנִית (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 50; Ms. R. חַזְּתָן).
- , אִחְזֵי
- 1. to be seen, to appear. Targ. Jud. XIII, 10; a. fr.—Ber. 17ᵇ מִיחֲזֵי כיוהרא it looks like assumption; a. fr.
- 2. to look at each other. Targ. O. Gen. XLII, 1.
- 3. to become fit, adapted for use. Bets. 26ᵇ אי דאִחֲזוּ בה"ש א׳ if on the entrance of the Sabbath they became fit for use, they have become so (for the entire Sabbath). Ib. אחזו והדר … אחזו they had been fit (on the entrance of the Sabbath), and were unfitted (through rain), and became fit again; a. fr.
- 4. to be shown, to be laid before the scholar for decision. Ib. אתח׳ לחכם וכ׳ it had been shown to (and decided upon by) the expert on the eve &c.; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2375, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- הזה hâzâh H1957 to dream
- חזא chăzâʼ H2370 to see
- חזה châzeh H2373 breast
- חזה chôzeh H2374 seer
- חזון châzôwn H2377 vision
- חזות châzôwth H2378 visions
- חזות châzûwth H2380 vision
- חזיון chizzâyôwn H2384 vision
- מחזה machăzeh H4236 vision
- מחזה mechĕzâh H4237 window
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- חזאל Chăzâʼêl H2371 Hazael
- חזיאל Chăzîyʼêl H2381 Haziel
- חזיה Chăzâyâh H2382 Hazaiah
- חזיון Chezyôwn H2383 Hezion
- יחזיאל Yachăzîyʼêl H3166 Jahaziel
- יחזיה Yachzᵉyâh H3167 Jahaziah
- מחזיאות Machăzîyʼôwth H4238 Mahazioth
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 19 — not the complete family. 7 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hazo). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Vision, one of the sons of Nahor (Gen. 22:22).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(vision), a son of Nahor, by Milcah his wife. (Genesis 22:22) (B.C. about 1900.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
seeing; prophesying
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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